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Funeral Games by Mary Renault Funeral Games by Mary Renault Ebook Funeral Games currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Funeral Games please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback:::: 352 pages+++Publisher:::: Vintage; Reprint edition (June 11, 2002)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 9780375714191+++ISBN-13:::: 978-0375714191+++ASIN:::: 0375714197+++Product Dimensions::::5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches++++++ ISBN10 9780375714191 ISBN13 978-0375714 Download here >> Description: “Renault’s best historical novel yet.... Every detail has solid historical testimony to support it.”–New York Review of BooksAfter Alexander’s death in 323 B.C .his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives, and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander’s legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams. Mary Renault wrote numerous historical novels set in the ancient Greek world. She meticulously researched her subjects, and her novels are credited for being historically accurate. The interactions of her characters are highly plausible, with dialogue that rings authentic. Her first novel was The Last of the Wine, written in 1956, and set during the Peloponnesian Wars. Her trilogy was written over a period that spanned the `70s. Ive read and reviewed the first two volumes, Fire from Heaven, written in 1969, and The Persian Boy, written in 1972. This would be her concluding volume, written in 1982. She died the next year.Renault was a homosexual. It is difficult to imagine the full circumstances for her decision, but in 1948 she and her significant other fled what they considered to be an intolerant England for a more liberal South Africa, where she would live for the rest of her life. Though she always stated that she did not want to be categorized as a homosexual writer, she did legitimately depict the various known and suspected homosexual relationships in the Greek world, including Alexanders. Such inclinations had very real world consequences for the survival of his empire. As Renault recreates the words of Ptolemy: ` A pity his mother was not like her. She would have had him married before he set out from Macedon, and seen that he got a son. He could have had an heir of fourteen by this time. Shed not have sickened him with a marriage while he was a child. Whose fault was it that he wasnt ready for a woman till he met the Bactrian? Thus, unofficially, did most Macedonians refer to Roxane.Though homosexual rights are now the daily grist for Supreme Court decisions, when she was writing, it is important to recall that it was not until 1964 that the same Court declared Tropic of Cancer not obscene, and homosexuality inhabited an even further outer fringe from acceptable society. But the sexuality, as Renault herself would state, was only incidental to her works. And this final volume primarily involved the power struggle upon Alexanders death in 323 B.C. among Perdikkas, who was Alexanders second-in-command, Antipatros, his trusted Regent, and Olympias, his mother. As one might suspect, it was ugly, with Renault graphically depicting same. It eventually led to four relatively stable power blocks 40 years later. Renaults work focuses on the first 13 of these years, with an epilogue of sorts, in 286 B.C. set in King Ptolemys book room in Alexandria, in present-day Egypt.Of the three volumes, I felt the middle one, The Persian Boy to be the strongest. In the final volume, she may have realized that her powers were waning. Still, all three volumes are an important legacy that help the modern reader understand the ancient world. 5-stars. Funeral Games in Literature and Fiction pdf books Funeral Games Games Funeral and was very satisfied to find it informative and up-to-date, as well as quite entertaining. Second, this book includes the Roman Catholic cathedrals as well as those of the Church of England. Most of these games are at funeral prices. Yet with her abductors still at large, she needs Aden's protection almost as much as she craves his Fuberal. 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